Rix remained hospitalized at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital after he was attacked by a group of people who were apparently present at the 6 a.m. shooting in the 4500 block of South Wood Street, authorities said.

Police said both Rix and Woods, 37, were engaged in a fistfight that ended with Rix leaving the scene. A short time later, he returned with a semiautomatic handgun and shot Woods multiple times, police said.

The group then accosted Rix and held him until police arrived. Woods, of the Wood Street address, was later pronounced dead, police said.

Police said both men were street gang members who knew one another and lived a block apart, but didn't say what spurred the fight or the shooting.

Rix, of the 4600 block of South Wood Street, is scheduled to appear before a judge later today.